By: Dave Ginsberg – CC BY 2.0
We skipped doing this last week because frankly, I was too overwhelmed moderating comments to deal with collecting editor favorites… but we're back this week! And so without further ado, here are the Offbeat Empire editors' very favorite comments from all four of our websites…

Wow, metaphor fail. Aren't metaphors supposed to help you visually and emotionally connect with a concept on a visceral level? Because I'd much rather have two carrots or two doughnuts than some bizarro carrot-doughnut combo. If I were to take that as an indication of what sort of sexuality I should support or denounce… well, you see where I'm headed.

Publishing websites dedicated to big life stuff means that we get a lot of blog comments that are extremely personal. I'm not even talking here... Read more

On a side note, we've had so many inspiring submissions from our transgender and genderqueer readers lately! I've long known that community content is contagious, and this is the best possible example of that concept. The more trans-related parenting posts we publish, the more amazing submissions we keep receiving! SO awesome.

Offbeat Bride

Those nasty bitches on internet wedding forums are probably perfectly normal individuals in daily life; anonymity brings out the worst in many of us. See also the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Not everyone deals with stress the same way; for those of us who stick around here, constructive, nurturing environments are good. For others of us, we need to indulge in some stress-relieving spleen-venting back-bitery. Some people juggle geese.

Offbeat Geese Juggler: our next site?

Oh, and speaking of farm animals, let's get to our weirdest comment of the week…

RANDOM BONUS COMMENT

…It's like the Random Bonus Shoe of Offbeat Empire commenting! This one came in on the Offbeat Empire blog's post about Liberal Bullying:

Hey, look, this, is, quit, goo, but, issue, is, that, tere, are, poepl, who, think, HEY, look at that, sexy goat, for esample, and make love to a goat, and they are, not taking, INTO, account, the fact that A GOAT CANNOT CONSENT, and no matter, how many overtuer, you make, to a GOAT you still cannot say that you HAVE HAD CONSENT FROM THE GOAT BECAUSE A GOAT CANNOT CONSENT, so, it remain and difficult issue and I dra a line in the sand and when the approach will spin with my arms out.

Repeat after me: A GOAT CANNOT CONSENT.

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I don't really mind what's causing it, I love it. The poster reminds me of a troll that used to frequent a message board I like whose best ever quote was "There is no calm down in your shitbag". It was wonderful.

"The phrase "Some people juggle geese" comes from Joss Whedon's defunct sci-fi western TV show Firefly. The line is spoken by the character Wash in the episode called "Our Mrs. Reynolds."

The situation is as follows. Wash has remarked to his wife Zoe that people on other planets have strange customs: in one place he visited, the primary form of recreation was to juggle goslings (baby geese). Later in the episode, a woman steals a shuttle from the space ship he pilots. His wife asks him why the thief would steal the shuttle, rather than the whole ship. He says, "Maybe she likes shuttles." Since this is not much of an explanation, she gives him an exasperated look. Then he says, in his defense, "Some people juggle geese!""

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